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Journals of Design continues, covering boutique journeys of a few New Zealanders with fascinating influences within pockets of NZ's coveted design industry, from sculpture, editorial to spaces. You might encounter a few gems that could lead you towards your next journey. Journals of Design is brought to you by Brett Band from Paceracer watches - https://www.paceracer.co/ Session six: Monolithic Sc...

Journals of Design continues, covering boutique journeys of a few New Zealanders with fascinating influences within pockets of NZ's coveted design industry, from sculpture, editorial to spaces. You might encounter a few gems that could lead you towards your next journey. Journals of Design is brought to you by Brett Band from Paceracer watches - https://www.paceracer.co/ Session five: Historic Jew...

Journals of Design continues, covering boutique journeys of a few New Zealanders with fascinating influences within pockets of NZ's coveted design industry, from sculpture, editorial to spaces. You might encounter a few gems that could lead you towards your next journey. Journals of Design is brought to you by Brett Band from Paceracer watches . Session four: Architect to Critical Sustainability w...

Journals of Design covers inspiring journeys of New Zealanders who've designed products, created brands & developed new innovations. This series uncovers what joy & divide it can take to create a world-class product or brand, hearing insights first-hand from entrepreneurs & inventors from our coveted New Zealand design industry. You might encounter a few gems that could lead you toward...

Journals of Design covers inspiring journeys of New Zealanders who've designed products, created brands & developed new innovations. This series uncovers what joy & divide it can take to create a world-class product or brand, hearing insights first-hand from entrepreneurs & inventors from our coveted New Zealand design industry.  You might encounter a few gems that could lead you towar...

Journals of Design covers inspiring journeys of New Zealanders who've designed products, created brands & developed new innovations. This series uncovers what joy & divide it can take to create a world-class product or brand, hearing insights first-hand from entrepreneurs & inventors from our coveted New Zealand design industry.  You might encounter a few gems that could lead you towar...

Outside In | No Borders is a D.Cast series where we explore the lives, perspectives, and reflections of a diverse range of New Zealand designers who live and work overseas. In this first instalment of Outside in | No Borders, Brendan Jarvis PDINZ, the Managing Founder of The Space InBetween speaks to Michael Tam.

Outside In | No Borders is a D.Cast series where we explore the lives, perspectives, and reflections of a diverse range of New Zealand designers who live and work overseas. In this first instalment of Outside in | No Borders, Brendan Jarvis PDINZ, the Managing Founder of The Space InBetween speaks to Nandini Nair.

Outside In | No Borders is a D.Cast series where we explore the lives, perspectives, and reflections of a diverse range of New Zealand designers who live and work overseas. In this first instalment of Outside in | No Borders, Brendan Jarvis PDINZ, the Managing Founder of The Space InBetween speaks to Sophie Hamer.

Outside In | No Borders is a D.Cast series where we explore the lives, perspectives, and reflections of a diverse range of New Zealand designers who live and work overseas. In this first instalment of Outside in | No Borders, Brendan Jarvis PDINZ, the Managing Founder of The Space InBetween speaks to Scott Mackie

Outside In | No Borders is a D.Cast series where we explore the lives, perspectives, and reflections of a diverse range of New Zealand designers who live and work overseas. In this first instalment of Outside in | No Borders, Brendan Jarvis PDINZ, the Managing Founder of The Space InBetween speaks to Thea Betts

Outside In | No Borders is a D.Cast series where we explore the lives, perspectives, and reflections of a diverse range of New Zealand designers who live and work overseas. In this first instalment of Outside in | No Borders, Brendan Jarvis PDINZ, the Managing Founder of The Space InBetween speaks to Tim Kwan.

With the current To The Floor - Well-being competition well under way, we thought we would catch up with Ashley Oswin who won the competition with the theme Lifeforce in 2020. Along with James Mfula, Creative Director at Milliken ANZ.   In the D.Cast James and Ashley discuss the inspiration behind the winning project, the design process, the steps taken to develop the winning design into a Millike...

Good Yarns with Bremworth In the Good Yarns with Bremworth D.Cast series, we will speak with local architects and designers to learn more about their approach to their mahi, them as people, and gain insights into the considerations behind their design choices.  Alex McLeod DINZ & Tomi Williams DINZ In this episode of Good Yarns with Bremworth, we chat with the collective force that is Alex McLeod...

In the Good Yarns with Bremworth D.Cast series, we will speak with local architects and designers to learn more about their approach to their mahi, them as people, and gain insights into the considerations behind their design choices.    Oli Booth In this instalment of Good Yarns with Bremworth, we catch up with the extremely talented Oli Booth. We get insights into his creative process, the mater...

Historically Foodstuffs have not held and maintained a ‘Format System’ and development of new stores and refurbishments have been quote adhoc with new stores taking on different floor area sizes and varying architecture. Whilst there has been a system for controlling on brand fixtures and fittings, they have not been documented well to allow them to be accessible for stores and repeatable. We are...

In this episode we’re going to discuss optimisation… so you’ve setup, you’ve hired the dream team, sorted your legal entities, dealt with the finance, self promotion is in hand so what’s next? Growth – whatever that means to you – is about optimising your business. Today we’ve got two guests well versed in this topic…   Hosted by Gideon Keith FDINZ and Ryan Ward PDINZ Guests: Catriona Knapp, HonDI...

Today we’re taking a slight detour and talking about working in house in large organisations. From building internal teams and navigating corporate structures, to championing the value of design and the deep understanding that comes from working in a single organisation. Today we have two very smart designers who have worked on both sides of the divide, to share their experiences and insights.  Ho...

This D.Cast is about Reputation and Notoriety – Awards and recognition, portfolios and case studies, clients and sales... it’s all a bit chicken and egg, without the portfolio you can’t win work and without work, you can’t write your case studies. To help us with these conundrums and share their experiences are two accomplished creative business owners who will be joining us on this episode.   Hos...

Welcome to the D.Cast. Today we’re going to talk about Money, Fees and Liabilities. Bank managers, the IRD and your landlord. Learning to talk about money is one of the most important skills you need in running a design business, whether it’s understanding a balance sheet or negotiating your fees, if you get it wrong it will cost you… literally. To share their experiences and knowledge today we ha...

In today’s D.Cast we’re going to talk about Partners, Partnering and Partnerships. Design businesses are often started by friends and on a handshake. As they grow and deal with different partners, suppliers and clients the need for contracts and legal structures grows. Whether it’s shareholders, banks or clients there’s a minefield of issues. So today we’ve got DINZ’s own legal advisor here to dis...

Welcome to the D.Cast today we’re going to talk about Building The Gang. In most design businesses wages are your largest overhead but without People you’re going to be working very hard to grow a studio. With the right people in the right roles you can take on the world. But they can also be your biggest liability with potential negative effects on your culture, reputation, productivity and profi...

Today’s D.Cast is a discussion about starting up. Design businesses start for a variety of reasons – opportunity, economics, ambition, adversity –  and I’m sure that there are many out there who have considered or are considering starting their own gig. Today we’ll share some insights from four partners from two businesses discussing their experiences and learning. We’ll cover from conception and...

Artist  Janine Williams  and architect  Tom Locke  of  Warren and Mahoney  discuss the large scale artwork which formed part of the  10 Madden  development for Precinct Properties in the Wynyard Quarter.  Janine talks about the process of developing the narrative for the project and then realising the work with the  Warren and Mahoney  team. The conversation touches on the design environment in Ao...

Associate Director at RCG, Andy Florkowski, PDINZ  catches up to talk about the new workplace for Te Taura Whiri I Te Reo Māori  with Jodie Mickleson,  Milliken-Ontera  and Anton Agnew,  Autex Acoustic s.   The new space is entirely informed by Tukutuku.   The structural qualities of Tukutuku are used as a framework to influence Hui configurations, whilst its adorning characteristics are used to d...